Wicked Thoughts x Mahara present: Mama Selmira - The Amazon Mother Healer, her first journey to Europe

When I was just a small girl, the elder Shipibo healers said to me:

"The sparkling sunrises in the great Amazon forest will bring you much joy and peace and the long moments you will spend enjoying the sound of the beautiful Amazon River will bring you wisdom. Keep these voices of nature inside you, and one day you will speak on behalf of them to the world. Your mission in life is to be the voice and the healing strength of Sacha Mama, our Mother Jungle". (Mama Selmira)

The Mama of the Amazon

Mama Selmira is part of a small group of old Shipibo healers. They are an enigmatic group of Amazonian natives who are well known as 'The Astral Travelers'. Doña Selmira, or Mama Selmira as she's known, has been waiting more than 60 years to carry out the prophecy of the Elders. Now she has heard from her spirits and they have given her permission to share this wisdom. Mama Selmira has accepted an invitation to make her first trip to Europe, so that she can share her incredible world of ceremonies teachings and incredible healing.

Mama Selmira is an amazing woman and a master in the use of the sacred Amazon Pipe which is only smoked during healing ceremonies using the divine Mapacho-wild Tobacco found only in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest.
She is also a unique keeper of the ancient Ikaros, or curative songs, that she sings when she 'paints' on people's bodies during ceremony. Afterwards the receivers of this special ritual will enter into an intense time of healing and extraordinary joy and spiritual growth.

Shipibo Wisdom

Amazon Healing Ways

According to the Shipibo-Conibo Masters (Amazon native group) the impurity of our Astral Body can directly influence our traumas, and this is reflected in our character, feelings, emotions and actions and can often lead to a negative chain of fear, feelings of rejection, guilt, anger and especially to dis-ease (it's no coincidence they are called diseases).

In this Ceremonial Workshop Mama Selmira will share the essence of the Shipibo wisdom, teachings on the purification of the Astral Body. It will be an evening filled with healing through her Ikaros (sacred songs). As she smokes her ceremonial Pipe with the healing Tobacco-Mapacho, she will also paint the faces and bodies of the participants, using a natural paint which has been used by the Amazonian natives for thousands of years and which allows us to enter a wonderful state of harmonious spiritual restoration both with nature and with the universe that surrounds us. This is a non-permanent, temporary 'paint'.

All money earned goes to Mama Selmira & The Pachama School: http://www.pachamamaschool.org/

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